The most powerful tool we have for making the world better and more equitable is education. But for too long, millions of children and young people around the globe have been denied this essential right.
On this International Day of Education, we hear from the passionate voices of youth leaders who are calling on world leaders to #AnswerTheCall.
Their message is clear: it’s time for governments to step up and invest in education, not just as a fundamental human right, but as the foundation for a brighter future for all. In their own words, they share why funding education is not just a choice—it’s an urgent necessity.
The call has been made. It is now up to world leaders to respond by taking action. These youth leaders remind us that our choices today determine our future. It’s time to ensure every child has the opportunity to learn, grow and contribute to a better world.
Will you answer the call? The future is waiting.
To learn more about “Answer the Call” including the youth statement written by GPE youth leaders, please visit answerthecall.education
Education
Kids’ minds develop surprisingly between the ages of one and eight, which makes this a basic window of time for tutoring. Youth wellbeing, security, and schooling work on a youngster’s possibilities arriving at adulthood’s full formative potential and connecting completely in friendly, social, and monetary life.
Various examinations and bits of information have met up to support this declaration. To begin with, research in neuroscience has exhibited that early encounters may either give serious areas of strength for a powerless starting point for a youngster’s ensuing learning, improvement, and conduct. This implies that the climate affects the construction of the mind. Second, research has shown that programming for youngsters and youths gives higher monetary profits from speculation than those for grown-ups and teenagers.
What is Youth Instruction?
Showing small kids is formally alluded to as youth training. All the more exactly, it alludes to organized and unstructured instructive drives that help kids’ turn of events and development during their preschool years (birth to mature five). Youth Instruction (ECE) incorporates an expansive scope of exercises pointed toward supporting small kids’ social and mental improvement before kindergarten passage. While certain projects focus on planning understudies scholastically for school, others take a “entire kid” move toward that burdens mental and profound wellbeing.
Significance of Early Instruction for a Kid’s Turn of events:
Giving kids the apparatuses they need to develop into deep rooted students is the objective of youth schooling (ECE). These apparatuses incorporate social, profound, and mental improvement methods. Coming up next are the most pivotal capacities for youthful understudies to gain:
Language and Proficiency: The improvement of education capacities is predicated on language. A kid’s energy for books and perusing improves when they figure out how to talk.
Thinking: Youngsters apply and acquire an understanding of numerical thoughts and strategies for tackling issues.
Poise: The ability to suitably communicate and get a handle on one’s feelings.
Fearlessness: Youngsters are more anxious to attempt new things when they have self-assurance and feel competent.
Mental Turn of events:
Youth mental improvement is significant for various reasons, including the way that it lays out the structure for tutoring and learning. The capacity to reason, think, and take care of issues is fundamental for scholastic accomplishment. It portrays how a kid’s intellectual capacities —, for example, discernment, consideration, memory, language, critical thinking, thinking, and independent direction — create and develop over the course of time.
At the point when gained in a youth instructive setting, mental abilities can work on a youngster’s capacity to get a handle on their feelings, talk obviously, and structure associations with others. Furthermore, they are bound to have more noteworthy confidence and a decent mental self portrait. It is urgent for cultivating the development of indispensable fundamental abilities including critical thinking, decisive reasoning, and navigation. These capacities are fundamental for outcome in all parts of life, including connections and work.
Interactive abilities:
Youth training assumes a significant part in showing kids how to cooperate really with companions and grown-ups. During these early stages, kids acquire vital interactive abilities that will help them all through their lives. They work on sharing, alternating, and cooperating, which assists them with creating solid correspondence and participation abilities. Collaborating in an organized instructive setting permits youngsters to shape companionships, resolve clashes, and figure out normal practices, establishing the groundwork for solid connections later on.
Profound Development:
Early training is additionally fundamental for profound development. In a steady learning climate, kids figure out how to comprehend and deal with their feelings. They foster close to home guideline abilities, which assist them with adapting to dissatisfaction, nervousness, and other testing sentiments. Also, early schooling advances versatility, empowering kids to return from mishaps and adjust to new circumstances. Educators and guardians give the sustaining support that youngsters need to fabricate a positive mental self portrait and close to home prosperity.
Language and Education:
One of the vital advantages of youth training is the improvement of language and proficiency abilities. During these years, youngsters are presented to a rich language climate that encourages their jargon and correspondence capacities. Early openness to perusing and narrating improves their language abilities as well as sparkles their creative mind and imagination. These exercises are crucial in planning kids for future scholarly achievement, as coarse speech and education abilities are basic for mastering across all subjects.
Establishment for Deep rooted Learning:
Youth schooling lays the foundation for long lasting learning and scholastic accomplishment. Research has shown that youngsters who go to quality early training programs perform better in school, have higher graduation rates, and are bound to seek after advanced education. The abilities and information acquired in youth give a strong groundwork that supports proceeded with instructive development and improvement. Putting resources into early schooling is an interest in a youngster’s future achievement and prosperity.
By effectively taking part in your kid’s initial training, you can assist them with building areas of strength for a for future scholar and individual achievement. Youth training is a fundamental stage in getting ready kids for the difficulties and open doors that lie ahead.
In August, students in Britain will figure out their outcomes for GCSEs, A levels, T Levels and VTQ (professional specialized capabilities) tests.
In front of results day, schools, universities and appraisal focuses ought to contact understudies straightforwardly to let them know how and when to gather them. They’ll likewise have the option to respond to any inquiries you have in front of the day.
This is the very thing you really want to realize about test results this year.
When is GCSE and Level 1/2 VTQ results day 2024?
GCSE results day is on Thursday 22 August.
Results for Level 1, Level 1/2 and Level 2 VTQs will likewise be accessible prior to this date.
Typically, students will actually want to go to their everyday schedule and gather their outcomes in person where they can get counsel from their educators.
On the other hand, schools will send results to understudies in the post or by email.
When is A level, T Endlessly level 3 VTQs results days 2024?
AS level, A level and T Level outcomes day is on Thursday 15 August.
Results for VTQs at Level 3 taken close by or rather than A levels, for example, BTECs, will be delivered to students at the very latest Thursday 15 August.
Results can be messaged or sent in the post, yet it’s really smart to go into the everyday schedule to accept your outcomes so you can get support from educators and profession counselors to examine your choices, particularly assuming your outcomes could influence your arrangements for September.
Assuming you’re applying to college through UCAS, you can follow your application on the web.
How have tests been reviewed since the pandemic?
Somewhere in the range of 2019 and 2022, we saw a huge expansion in the quantity of passages getting top grades, because of disturbance brought about by the pandemic.
Last year saw a re-visitation of pre-pandemic evaluating game plans, and generally speaking public outcomes were like those of 2019. Ofqual have affirmed that they are going on with typical reviewing this year.
This is critical to ensuring test capabilities are trusted – it implies that colleges and bosses figure out the exhibition of applicants, genuinely believe in their capabilities, and can utilize them to assist them with advancing into the perfect times.
How would it be advisable for me to respond assuming that I’m disheartened with my outcomes?
Your everyday schedule and your instructors will uphold you if don’t obtain the outcomes you expected or on the other hand assuming that your arrangements change in view of the outcomes you get.
Keep in mind, there are various energizing choices to take after school and school.
If don’t get the GCSE results you were expecting, you can figure out additional about your choices here.
Also, on the off chance that you’re stressed over not come by the outcomes you really want for your college course, you can figure out additional about your choices here.
In the event that you really want assistance or counsel around your test results or following stages, you can call the Public Vocations Administration helpline to talk to a professions consultant on 0800 100 900.
In the event that you’re having a focused on or restless outlook on tests and you’re matured 18 or more youthful, you can likewise call Childline free of charge on 0800 1111 or visit online to get support.
Ofqual has likewise made this useful aide for understudies on adapting to test pressure which offers guidance and backing on adapting to test tension and stress.
OVERVIEW:
79,618 refugee children are aged 3-17 years as of June, 2017. Of these, 57,601 are school aged (6-17 years). Currently, 30,004 are so far enrolled in formal education and 11,283 in nonformal education.
JUNE HIGHLIGHTS:
57,601 Syrian school aged refugee children (6-17 years) are residing in Iraq, 98% in the KRI. 32,971 are spread into urban, peri-urban and rural communities, while 24,630 are in camps. Of these 30,004 children enrolled in formal primary or secondary education as of June while 11,283 are participating in non-formal education in camps and non-camp settings across Iraq.
A training session was provided to partner staff on protection principles, education and Refugee Assistance Information System (RAIS) in Erbil. The training aimed at enhancing the capacity of participants on protection principles, access and use of RAIS in order to update the process and assistance provided to higher education students and also to make data entry for the new intakes.
A profile has been created for DAFI scholars to ensure full engagement of scholars, the exercise mapped the talents and interest of the scholars with a view of planning and matching with a broad range of activities in the summer.
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Chennai: The concerns raised by Tamil Nadu over the mandatory National-Eligibility-Cum-Entrance Test (NEET) for admission to medical courses, have escalated this year, with several parties planning protests across the state.
States like Tamil Nadu that have been opposing NEET have claimed that the students from the CBSE board will have an advantage over students from state boards.
“NEET exam is not a West Bengal issue. It is a federal issue,” said Derek O’Brien of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in Rajya Sabha on Monday.
Members of the TMC and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) raised the issue of different questions papers given in the common medical entrance examination in regional languages in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu.
Losing out medical college seats to students from other states has been one of the biggest concerns for the state.
A Times of India report on Monday said that the number of students from other states securing MBBS seats from the government quota on the basis of nativity will go up from about 47 in 2016 to nearly 500 this year, if the state admits students on the basis of NEET. According to the report, it will be an 11-fold increase in the 85% government quota seats in 22 state-run medical colleges and state quota seats in 10 self-financing medical colleges compared to last year.
“We will spend our people’s money, build quality medical institutions. You will come from other states, take our seats under NEET, study and go back to your state. Why should we run such institutions and spend our people’s money for you?” asked Anbumani Ramadoss, leader of the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK). The party held a hunger strike last week in opposition to NEET.
The leader of opposition and working president of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) M.K. Stalin on Saturday said in a statement, “Due to the ignorance of the AIADMK government and Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) government’s policies against social justice, NEET has entered Tamil Nadu and poured cold water on the medical aspirations of the state’s students.”
Opposing the NEET, the DMK will form human chains across all districts in the state on Thursday. Its ally Congress, along with Communist Party of India (CPI) and Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) will join the protest. CPM has announced picketing protests in front of central government offices on Friday.
Also read: M.K. Stalin attacks Centre, Tamil Nadu govt over introduction of NEET
Two bills passed in the state assembly by the Edappadi K. Palaniswami government for providing exemption from NEET for admission to medical courses are awaiting presidential assent. The DMK had blamed the BJP for not sending the bills to the president for his assent and failing to respect the democratic rights of the state.
“Is this the way of cooperative federalism? State assembly passes a resolution, the central Government is not accepting it,”said CPM leader T.K. Rangarajan on Monday in Rajya Sabha. He added that half of the questions in the NEET examination were not part of the syllabus taught to students in Tamil Nadu.
Earlier this month, the Madras high court quashed a Tamil Nadu government order that reserved 85% of the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) and Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) seats to state board students and 15% for students from CBSE and other boards.
The NEET, which was declared illegal and unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 2013, was restored in April last year, after a five-judge constitution bench recalled the earlier verdict and allowed the Centre and the Medical Council of India (MCI) to implement the common entrance test. However, last year, following requests from states like Tamil Nadu, a law was made granting an exemption from NEET, only for government colleges, for one year.
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President Trump Just Donated His Salary to the Education Department. Here’s How Much He Wants to Cut From It
Before he entered the Oval Office in January,Donald Trump pledged to donate his yearly salary of $400,000 that he earns serving as President of the United States.
Fulfilling that promise for the second time this year, Trump donated his second-quarter salary of $100,000 to the Department of Education on Wednesday to help fund a STEM camp, which teaches young students about science, technology, engineering and math.
But the gift is just a small fraction of what the department would lose under Trump’s proposed budget. Though Trump’s 2018 budget will not be enacted without congressional approval, his proposal would cut the education department’s spending by $9.2 billion — or about 13.5% — which would include significant slashes to student loan programs.
A similar situation occurred in April when Trump donated his first-quarter salary to the Department of Interior, which stands to lose 12%, of about $1.6 billion, of its funding under Trump’s proposed budget. His $78,333.32 gift back then is helping fund the National Park Service’s battlefield preservation efforts, which is currently $229 million behind in deferred maintenance costs.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos released a statement Wednesday thanking Trump for his donation, lauding “his commitment to our nation’s students and to reforming education in America so that every child, no matter their ZIP code, has access to a high quality education.”
“We want to encourage as many children as possible to explore STEM fields in the hope that many develop a passion for these fields,” she added.
It is unclear what the STEM camp will look like, but DeVos mentioned a reading event she hosted with Trump’s daughter Ivanka, special assistant to the president, at a Smithsonian museum in Washington D.C. aimed at encouraging young girls to learn more about STEM subjects.
Representatives from the White House and the Department of Education did not immediately respond to request for comment.
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State Board of Education: Budget cuts ‘will adversely impact our students’
By Kelly Hinchcliffe
RALEIGH, N.C. — The State Board of Education approved $2.5 million in cuts to the state Department of Public Instruction on Tuesday as a result of mandated budget reductions by the General Assembly. Most of the cuts are expected to impact low-performing schools and teacher training in the state. An additional $737,000 in cuts are expected in the coming weeks.
The board voted unanimously Tuesday to make $1.6 million in staff cuts to the state education department, which include:
- Seven full-time employees
- Three temporary employees
- Eight vacant positions in the following divisions: district and school transformation (six positions), educator effectiveness (one position) and curriculum and instruction (one position)
- 19 instructional coaches will get pay cuts and be reduced from 12-month to 10-month employees.
Board Chairman Bill Cobey declined to say which positions are being cut, citing personnel laws, but said they will be revealed at a later date. He said the majority of the staff cuts will be in the District Transformation and Educator Effectiveness divisions. The board plans to merge the two divisions into a new one, called District Support.
“Hopefully the districts can pick up any slack that is produced by this reduction,” Cobey said. “We’re further reducing the service to the districts. Hopefully you won’t see any huge impact any place, but there’s going to be marginal impact in certain places across the state. And we’re going to try our best to mitigate that.”
The board also approved $865,168 in operating reductions, which include:
- $306,705 – Contractual services
- $143,666 – Employee education/professional development
- $131,412 – Temporary employees
- $87,493 – Travel
- $69,365 – Supplies, materials, program delivery
- $62,853 – Equipment/maintenance of equipment
- $26,164 – Postage
- $22,510 – Phone
- $15,000 – Dues & subscriptions
Board member Eric Davis said the budget cuts “will adversely impact our students, especially those in districts and schools which rely most heavily on the Department of Public Instruction.”
“And, so, my hope is that in future years our superintendent, in partnership with the General Assembly, will prevent future adverse impacts to our students through budget reductions to the Department of Public Instruction,” Davis added.
State Superintendent Mark Johnson attended Tuesday’s meeting by conference call and released the following statement after the board’s vote:
“While these funding cuts will be challenging, I did not run for Superintendent of Public Instruction to shirk away from the challenges of leadership. The General Assembly is clearly frustrated with the lack of accountability of the State Board of Education, and I am too. The culture of a non-accountability created by the State Board is one of the reasons I sought funding for a top-to-bottom, third-party review of DPI. By studying the results from this upcoming operational review and working together with the professional staff at DPI, I believe the department will come out stronger, more efficient, and more effective at supporting public schools in NC. The Board seems to prefer to complain and instead focuses only on more of the same. I embrace the positive changes that can result from addressing this substantive challenge head-on. We can and will be a better DPI at the end of this process.”
The General Assembly voted to reduce the state education department’s operating funds by 6.2 percent – $3.2 million – for 2017-18 and 13.9 percent – $7.3 million – for 2018-19.
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Duterte must prioritize poverty, education over drug war in 2nd year
RESULT OF THE INQPoll
INQUIRER.net readers have spoken: In an Inquirer online poll, 14.75 percent of respondents said President Duterte, in his second year in office, should “address urban and rural poverty.”
POLL: What should be Duterte’s priority in his second year?
The multiple-choice poll, which ran from July 2 to 21, invited the public to answer the question, “What should be President Duterte’s top priority in his second year?”
“Address the gaps in education to ensure quality students” was a close second at 13.11 percent. “Continue the war on drugs” ranked third at an estimated 10.1 percent of respondents.
The 14 choices given were based on the President’s previous promises from the time of his campaign to his first State of the Nation Address (Sona).
Address poverty first
The respondents’ top priority is, in fact, in line with President Duterte’s own goal to cut a fourth of the current poverty rate in the next three years of his term.
The National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) announced the President’s intention on January 31. Two days prior, he officially put on hold the government’s war on illegal drugs, which had been the administration’s priority since President Duterte assumed office in 2016. Critics in the past had been vocal about the role of the drug war in addressing poverty, as many of those who have been killed come from the poorest sector in society.
Critics in the past had been vocal about the role of the drug war in addressing poverty, as many of those who have been killed come from the poorest sector in society.
A recent Social Weather Stations survey reported that an estimated 10.1 million families considered themselves poor, six percent lower than the estimated 11.5 million families recorded in the previous quarter.
The survey was conducted from June 23 to 26.
Focus, too, on education
On prioritizing education, President Duterte has yet to deliver on key promises dating back to his campaign. The P3.35-trillion national budget for 2017, however, has allocated P544.1 billion to the education sector.
During his presidential campaign, the President had promised to prioritize education to strengthen the middle class by increasing the number of government scholarships and diverting funds from other programs to education.
He mentioned again these promises during his first Sona, saying, “We are planning to increase spending on basic education and incorporate mandatory education about the evils of drugs.”
MORE: Sona 2017 special website
Rounding out the top five were: build more roads and railways, ensure food security by investing in agriculture and continue the prosecution of corrupt government officials.
The INQUIRER.net poll is not a scientific survey. It is an interactivity tool that can, within its limits, reflect the interests of online readers. IDL
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Hundreds of protesters greet Education Secretary Betsy DeVos this week in Denver, where she addressed the American Legislative Exchange Council.
In this week’s edition of our education news roundup, we take you from school vouchers to AP exams to community college.
Betsy DeVos speaks to American Legislative Exchange Council
Protests greeted the education secretary in Denver this week at her speech to the American Legislative Exchange Council. Her family has close ties to the organization, which brings together state legislators, free-market conservatives and corporate sponsors to write model bills that get adopted all over the country.
ALEC and Betsy DeVos both back vouchers, tax credit scholarships, education savings accounts and expansions of charter, home-schooling, virtual and for-profit providers. Her rhetoric, here, was more fiery than in previous appearances, as she faced off against critics —”defenders of the status quo” — and praised ALEC for “the fight” to expand school choice. She also hit familiar notes:
“Choice in education is good politics because it’s good policy. It’s good policy because it comes from good parents who want better for their children.”
As we reported, the timing of her speech was a bit awkward:
House Republicans have just rejected the school choice expansions in Trump’s initial budget request. Recent studies have shown mixed-to-negative results for voucher programs, and there have been successful fights against voucher expansion even in staunchly red states like Texas.
House budget resolution has cuts to education
The Republican-controlled House has been working on its spending plan, including for education.
This week, the budget committee adopted a plan to cut $20 billion from education over 10 years. The resolution, which is only one step toward becoming a law, makes reference to streamlining the federal college loan program, a likely source of some of the cuts.
Last week, House Republicans introduced an appropriations bill through September 2018 that freezes Pell Grants, the largest need-based aid program for college students, and takes back $3.3 billion from the program’s surplus. The budget includes $2.4 billion in education cuts. By contrast, the Trump budget proposal called for more than $9 billion in cuts.
Many more girls taking AP computer science
The nonprofit Code.org, which promotes computer science education, noted that 29,000 female high school students took an Advanced Placement exam in computer science this spring, 10 times more than 10 years ago. In addition, participation by underrepresented minority groups has doubled compared to a year ago.
Much of this growth is due to last year’s introduction of a new AP course, AP Computer Science Principles, a course designed “to appeal to a broader audience,” according to College Board materials. The new exam does not require a specific programming language, unlike AP computer science A, which focuses on Java.
Despite the progress in exposure to computer science in high schools, there is a long way to go: Only a little over 1 in 4 of those who took an AP computer science exam this year were girls, and only 1 in 5 were underrepresented minorities.
California community college chancellor calls for dropping algebra
Eloy Ortiz Oakley, chancellor of the California community college system, the nation’s largest, told NPR’s Robert Siegel this week that he wants to adopt other pathways to a degree that don’t require algebra. Algebra is the single most failed college course. “There are other math courses that we could introduce that tell us a lot more about our students,” he said, mentioning statistics as a possible alternative.
Billions in private student loan debt may be erased
Tens of thousands of borrowers could have their decades-old private student loan debt forgiven because of to financial companies’ poor record keeping, an investigation by The New York Times found this week.
The forgiven debt would amount to $5 billion — which is just a fraction of the $108 billion in outstanding private student loans (and an even smaller fraction of the $1.4 trillion student loan market). Private student loans are a more expensive and riskier way to pay for college, and they are on the decline compared with in the years before the Great Recession.
Feminist groups call on Candice Jackson to reject “rape myths”
A total of 58 feminist and legal organizations signed a letter this week calling on the chief of the Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights to clarify the data on campus sexual assault and to meet with survivors. Candice Jackson apologized last week for remarks to The New York Times that “90 percent” of campus rape allegations “fall into the category of ‘we were both drunk’ ” or are brought by unhappy ex-girlfriends.
The letter cited Justice Department data that 23 percent of women, 24 percent of gender nonconforming students and 6 percent of men are assaulted while in college. In addition, fewer than 10 percent of reports are found to be false.
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‘Panjab University’s dept of education has maximum registered scholars’
The Panjab University’s department of education has the highest number of registered scholars, 374, followed by the department of laws, 261, said quality assurance cell (IQAC) report. According to the report, 2,911 research scholars are reported to have been registered at the various departments of the university.
The department of education was also awarded UGC special assistance programme in the thrust areas of education technology, education administration and management and education psychology and guidance.
However, talking about the supervisors available, the question of quality arises as the department of laws has a most number of researchers, 93, who have two supervisors while in the department of physics, 69 researchers have at least two supervisors, followed by the departments of botany and chemistry.
Only seven departments are those in which at least one student is supervised by two supervisors. There are eight departments in which only one student is assigned three supervisors. These include the department of biophysics, centre for systems biology and bioinformatics (UIEAST), the department of anthropology, department of chemistry, department of computer science and applications, department of environment studies, department of microbial biotechnology and the department of statistics.
According to the analysis, there are82 supervisors on the campus, who have been handling a minimum of 8 research scholars and a maximum of 17.
Sources said PU has been rated high on the number of research papers and citations and handful of departments can be credited for the same.
“However, other departments have also been contributing considerably to the research performance of the PU. This becomes evident when we dig into various aspects of research performance of the university. The first stage of research at a university involves a single research student, who works under the supervision of a senior practitioner in that field of knowledge,” said Rajiv Lochan, director, Internal Quality Assurance Cell.
Lochan added, “Recently we inquired into statistical information about research supervision in the university according to the information made public by the various departments of PU. A total of 66 PU departments reported that they had registered research scholars.”
After the department of education and laws, departments of Chinese and Tibetan studies, and of nano-sciences have one research student each. The departments of botany, chemistry, physics, and physical education have more than 100 registered research scholars.
Why department of education has high number of scholars?
Professor Rajiv Lochan explained that through this analysis, it has been observed that the departments, which are not even considered for the PU grading are doing well, including the department of education. The figures indicate that a large number of students are taking interest in doing a research in the field of education in the new course of time. “There is a strong captive research in this field. Research on schools, students and teachers seems to be a big hit as these research subjects are always and easily available,” said Lochan.
- Education: 374
- Law: 261
- Chemistry: 134
- Physical Education: 121
- Physics: 118
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